Homeschool College Admission Advice
BevK September 19th, 2006
http://www.kinston.com/Si…2&Section=Local
This article covers college admissions of homeschoolers from the perspective of an admissions director at UNC-Chapel Hill and public relations officer at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs. Their explanations of the process is in line with my own experience.
Home-school students seeking admission to UNC-Chapel Hill, and even students graduating from traditional schools, could provide additional information, such as SAT subject testing in fields like U.S. history, literature and foreign languages, to give admissions officers a better idea of their academic abilities, Farmer said. In addition, references from someone not related to the student, such as an instructor at a community college, would help, he said.
Farmer emphasized that the additional information was just a recommendation, not a requirement.
“They just give us a point of information about the students’ readiness to thrive here,” he said. “The more information that home-school students can give us to help make up for the lack of context that naturally follows when you’re going to school in a class of one, the better we can understand them and the better we can be fair to them.”
